Explanation of a spiritual landscape framework for low cost trips - A Case Study: men and women Hitchhik tourists

Low cost trips are solution to reduce travel costs and expense management in the way that tourists who are interested in precarious and high-risk experiences can achieve to an important component of the specific trip and travel experiences with lower costs. Hitchhik category, is not-so-new category at the international level, but still is an unfamiliar concept in Iran. Perhaps these limitations and difficulties of travel in Iran, is take into account as being theoretical of this subject. It is obvious that specific types of tourism associated with different interpretations and spiritual states and this study are to follow experience of spiritual component to modeling Hitchhik tourism form the theoretical concept. This is a qualitative research and has been made by using grounded theory method and the use of semi-structured interviews with men and women who have had experience of this journey. 28 Successful interviews were done to achieve theoretical saturation and after open axial and selective coding techniques, the research findings was extracted in the form of paradigm. To learn about cultures, taking risks and simple traveling as causal factors. Carpool harassment, social resistance and hardness in the host society as a confounding factor. Inter-cultural interactions and non-predictable events were identified as underlying factors. Live in the moment, peace, friendship and trust in stranger’s are strategies that change the central phenomenon of spiritual change in the precarious journey to the consequences of theology, moral deeds, increase the number of friends and lead change makes insight. The results show that type of cheap and precarious tourism, has a distinct spiritual component that identifying and managing them can bring spiritual experience.